Why Hermoine trusts Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 69456

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "D.G." 
<dgwhiteis at h...> wrote:
> Cindy wrote:
> 
> I really go for the whole 'tortured hero' thing...
> 
> 
DG:
> JKR has dropped some pretty broad hints that Snape is going 
to do  something really nasty in the next book.  Maybe 
Dumbledore is fated  to find himself apologizing again.  
> 

Well, JKR can't have us trusting Snape too much, or he won't be 
any good as a red herring. I am not going to defend the tooth 
remark, but I will quote Dumbledore: "Sirius was much too old 
and clever to allow such feeble taunts to hurt him." I'm not saying 
every fourteen year old is capable of ignoring feeble taunts,   but 
to judge by the advice Hermione is always giving the boys, she 
certainly seemed  to feel  they were up to it. Sauce for the 
gander...

A lot of OOP is about the necessity of learning not to be provoked 
by taunting. I agree that Hermione didn't have to take that from 
Snape. Just so. She. didn't. have. to. take. it. Just because he 
threw it down didn't mean she had to pick it up. She's quite 
capable of ignoring nonsense from a teacher while absorbing 
useful information; she does it in Hagrid's class all the time.

 I think, once Hemione had herself back under control, she was 
probably annoyed with herself for breaking down, and resolved 
that Snape was not ever going to get to her again.

Pippin
whose plan for torturing Snape doesn't involve a melon-baller